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@layman,

layman wrote:

I mean, like, take a gander at them luscious lips, know what I'm sayin?

I certainly do know what you're saying; and there's something else I know, too; namely, . . . Layman's in love! <3 Smile

(We need some humor around here. This topic is too depressing! Mr. Green

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@oralloy,

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Congress Set to Pass Trump-Proof Russia Sanctions, White House Signals Support

So the trade war with Germany is on?

Immaterial. The importance is that even his own party now realizes that Trump's prostration before Putin is not acceptable.

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@Baldimo,

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When the ACA went into effect, it made it possible for that mother to put her daughter on her insurance, why didn't she do it? So instead of being personally responsible for her family as an adult should, her daughter dies and she wants to force the rest of us onto govt controlled health insurance? This is the problem with leftists

We don't know why the mother didn't put the daughter on her insurance. However, it is a side issue, the fact of the matter is the hospital denied life-giving treatment to the daughter because of failure to provide proof of health insurance and the daughter died as a result. And you're totally OK with that.

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@wmwcjr,

Speaking of humor, . . .

Finn dAbuzz wrote:

glitterbag wrote:
Maybe John Goodman will play Sara Huckabee when the show resumes??? I did love Melissa McCarthy as Sean Spicer, but Goodman did a great Linda Tripp, he'd be perfect for Huckabee.

And who would make a perfect glitterbag?

That question has been answered, but there remains another question that has not been answered; namely, . . . Who would make a perfect Finn dAbuzz?

I know! I know! Considering the facts that Finn's sinister jester avatar is so effectively neat and his wit is so deadly sharp, I would answer the question of who would make a perfect Finn dAbuzz with the nomination of Stephen King's beloved character . . .

https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/736x/53/1f/93/531f9355b68310aa40d3b46703f0ce9b.jpg

Pennywise the Dancing Clown Smile

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@revelette1,

revelette1 wrote:

Takeaways from Kushner's Senate Intel statement (USA TODAY)

Kushner screwed the selective leakers and the MSM bigtime, eh? They can't distort and spin all his comments to make it look likes he's a lying, corrupt COLLUDER now, because he done gave the public the whole tale.

Foiled again, eh, Snoopy?

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Some of you likely know this story

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Rep. Blake Farenthold of Texas said in a radio interview Friday he might "settle this Aaron Burr-style" -- an apparent reference to the 1804 duel when Burr killed Alexander Hamilton -- if GOP holdouts on the Senate health care efforts were men from his home state of Texas rather than women.

"Listen, the fact that the Senate does not have the courage to do some of the things that every Republican in the Senate promised to do is just absolutely repugnant to me," he told Texas radio host Bob Jones on "Keys 1440 AM." "Some of the people that are opposed to this -- there are some female senators from the Northeast -- if it was a guy from South Texas, I might ask him to step outside and settle this Aaron Burr-style."

Of course, two of these women are from Virginia and Alaska but this is not a bright fellow.

Still, you have to hand it to him, as a Texan of the courageous, principled and manly sort, to be thinking of a duel as a cool solution to disagreements.

And you've got to hand it to him for his uber-macho "men naturally dominate women" thing. Tells it like it is. No political correctness for this guy.

In the photo below, our hero is the guy on the right. Truly. That's him.

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DFiUMOLXYAQb8qW.jpg

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The nearly complete moral degradation of the modern Republican party is clearly evident in this story here.

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With a vote to proceed on repealing Obamacare less than 24 hours away—and with most senators completely in the dark on what they’ll be voting on and whether they even have enough support to start the debate—GOP leadership is floating the idea that they can ship a bedridden Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) across the country to cast the deciding vote.

McCain recently found out that he has an extremely aggressive form of brain cancer and took an indefinite leave of absence from the Senate. Still, GOP Whip Sen. John Cornyn (R-TX) insisted to reporters on Monday that there is a chance McCain could be flown to DC tomorrow. “We have not yet gotten word, but we’re hopeful,” he said. “Knowing him, I know he wants to come back as soon as he can physically make it.”

Asked if there is even time to get a doctor to sign off on the journey and make the arrangements for the trip, Cornyn snapped: “I’m not a doctor. I quit after organic chemistry.”

Sen. Roger Wicker (R-MS) went into more graphic detail about McCain’s condition, saying that his travel plans hinge on “whether his incision has healed to the extent that he can sit in a pressurized cabin for four hours.”

“He might get the go-ahead from his doctors this afternoon,” Wicker added. “We don’t know just yet.”

TPM

Yes. They will risk the health of John McCain so that they can then remove 23-30 million Americans presently ensured under the ACA.

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@blatham,

McCain will vote, and if he dies as a result, he will only regret that he has but one life to give for his country.

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Cheese-eaters want it all ways, eh? They want activist judges to pass laws for them that they don't have the votes for. They want the judicial branch to have the powers of the legislative branch when it advances their lame-ass agenda.

At the same time, the want the legislature to usurp the power of the courts when it suits them, too:

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House Dem drafts bill to stop Trump from pardoning himself

Texas Democratic Rep. Al Green is pushing a bill to stop President Trump from pardoning himself in the Russia meddling ordeal, as the president's team tries to tamp down speculation that pardons might even be considered in a case that's so far produced no charges.

Green has been on the far edge of the Trump resistance on Capitol Hill and is also backing an article of impeachment filed by his colleague, Rep. Brad Sherman, D-Calif.

Green, a first-term congressman, also said his proposed legislation would clarify the powers of the presidential pardon and is not directed specifically at Trump.

The impeachment article does not enjoy widespread support even among Democrats, and the pardon preemption could encounter similar problems.

Now they think they're the ultimate arbiters of what the constitution says and means, see?

I guess he aint heard, eh? It is the Supreme Court, not a democratic representative for some small fraction of the State of Texas, who "clarifies" the meaning of constitutional clauses.

Judges writing laws, legislators dictating the meaning of the constitution, cats sleeping with dogs--it's a crazy cheese-eating world there, sho nuff.

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@wmwcjr,

Hey Bill, Pennywise was never a SNL cast member and I don't think Tim Curry every appeared on the show however at one time he would have made and an excellent Finn

https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcT2Z_MUtWkVyjwTx4z4Cj81qtTcvG6erZh20-tC0txKdLeXfsOvbA

Alas, no longer. I'm afraid he suffered from a stroke and is wheelchair bound. Very unfortunate. He always seemed to be brimming over with life and energy.

If he were to have played me and been in costume, rather than Pennywise I would have suggested

https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcSLgEv5siWp19ejbJWJVKHksll-u2mE6bpqyRwnsov4qqRQrOW0

or

or even

https://eternian.files.wordpress.com/2012/09/darkness-of-the-movie-legend.jpg?w=595

But for SNL cast members, current or former it would have to be this guy.

http://www.newsmax.com/CMSPages/GetFile.aspx?guid=b28f955c-cf1b-476b-9206-60e1462fdaf5&SiteName=Newsmax

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@blatham,

OK, “I’m not a doctor. I quit after organic chemistry.”
I laughed, I can relate. I loved chemistry, but was busy working after school, taking buses and so on. I did ok, but not your future chemist.

skipping along to serious, listen up to blatham.

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David Corn‏Verified account @DavidCornDC 1h1 hour ago
Will cancer-stricken @SenJohnMcCain help a draft-dodger who called him a loser take health care from millions? Then this will be his legacy.

Yes.

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@blatham,

Cornyn is a horses ass, and it's great to know how much he values other's lives.

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@wmwcjr,

wmwcjr wrote:

Speaking of humor, . . .

Finn dAbuzz wrote:

glitterbag wrote:
Maybe John Goodman will play Sara Huckabee when the show resumes??? I did love Melissa McCarthy as Sean Spicer, but Goodman did a great Linda Tripp, he'd be perfect for Huckabee.

And who would make a perfect glitterbag?

I don't know about who might best play glitterbag but I think I've discovered "her" real identity: Ira Madison III!

http://dailycaller.com/2017/07/21/journo-calls-sarah-huckabee-sanders-a-butch-queen/

Isn't it humorous how often liberals, who you would expect to be all femininsty and dead set against fat-shaming or judging a woman by her appearance, immediately resort to such insults when faced with a conservative woman they find threatening.

Old Ira here even throws in a homophobic reference.

I guess the idea is that they can make fat jokes about women or fag jokes about anyone because they love and respect women and homosexuals so much. Who doesn't get the harmless joke?

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@blatham,

blatham wrote:

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David Corn‏Verified account @DavidCornDC 1h1 hour ago
Will cancer-stricken @SenJohnMcCain help a draft-dodger who called him a loser take health care from millions? Then this will be his legacy.

Yes.

Twitter is an interesting medium. For someone who is clever and possesses a razor sharp wit, it can be the perfect medium (Ever read any of the tweets of Jim Geraghty's brother? They're great). For others like Corn who longs to be profound, it's a vehicle for inane melodrama.

Whatever John McCain's legacy may be when he passes on, unless he streaks naked across the Senate floor reciting Jabberwocky at the top of his lungs, it will have nothing to do with healthcare.

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@blatham,

blatham wrote:

The nearly complete moral degradation of the modern Republican party is clearly evident in this story here.

Yes. They will risk the health of John McCain so that they can then remove 23-30 million Americans presently ensured under the ACA.

"Nearly" complete? C'mon you've been saying that ship has sailed so long ago it's lost over the horizon.

They won't be risking anything, McCain will. He's not a child that they can trick into appearing. If he doesn't want to risk what's left of his time on earth by getting in a plane and flying to DC, he won't. Who tells John McCain what he has to do? No one in the Senate is going to speak poorly of John McCain if he doesn't make the vote. Even Trump won't and he's capable of saying just about anything.

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@Finn dAbuzz,

Finn dAbuzz wrote:

No one in the Senate is going to speak poorly of John McCain if he doesn't make the vote. Even Trump won't and he's capable of saying just about anything.

If I was Trump and McCain didn't show up to vote, I would say something like: "Ya see? That's why he got captured. He's not in the right place at the right time."

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@layman,

A political publicity stunt by a first term clown.

The "pardon preemption" won't be supported by his colleagues because they all know it will never make it through Congress, never get past a Trump veto which in turn will never be overridden. If however the stars align and through some miracle it ever became law, it will be tossed by the first Court to review it.

Someone should bring up a bill that would impose penalties on members of Congress who propose and push ridiculously frivolous legislation. Someone more familiar with the mechanics than me would have to come up with the standard that must be met to avoid being determined the author of a frivolous proposal. The penalty could be that the legislator must reimburse, from his personal pocket, the Treasury for whatever costs can be associated to the quixotic and BS effort (E.g. the cost of electricity used by the CNN news crew who interview the clown in the Rotunda.) Or the clown can be tarred and feathered.

In addition to eliminating these partisan stunts it might put a stop to the silly ass ones like declaring July 28th National Game of Thrones Day.

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@Finn dAbuzz,

Oh ****, I didn't know you had standards.

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@Finn dAbuzz,

The plot thickens..

http://dailycaller.com/2017/07/24/the-mooch-demands-an-apology-from-the-daily-beast/

The Mooch comes to the aid of his subordinate, Huckabee.

(Gosh that's pretty patriarchal behavior. Does The Mooch not believe Sarah is capable of dealing with a nasty Voice of the queer community on her own? I wouldn't be surprised to soon see a hardcore lefty feminist jump into the twitter fray and criticize The Mooch for his presumptuous and patronizing chivalrous action which, as we all know, is merely an expression of an oppressive male supremacy ideology...all the while ignoring Madison's offensive comment)

Madison deletes his tweet about Huckabee

Apparently when the Daily Caller reporter engaged Madison on his twitter feed some of his followers told her she just didn't understand the queer community.

Does this mean it's perfectly OK, within the queer community, to judge and criticize women based on their appearances?

I'm disappointed. I would have thought that there was a greater degree of solidarity between the feminist and queer communities...but wait, is that a patriarchal, homophobic comment?

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